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4246 [lbo-talk] NCLB bites the University? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 12, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The following was distributed on the English Department e-list > today. I > haven't explored it further or checked the website referred to, but it > seems as though Universities may be asked to prepare teachers to > conform > to the No Child Left Behind. It may be of interest to college teachers > on the list. I've posted my interview with Diane Ravitch - podcast subscribers can get it now, but I won't get to the web page upd ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 18:38:51 PDT 2010

4247 [lbo-talk] Goldner responds to Fitch -- rank: 1000

Begin forwarded message: > From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> > Date: April 12, 2010 8:26:53 PM EDT > To: dhenwood at panix.com > Subject: My Reply to Robert Fitch now on line > > Hi Doug- > > Would you mind posting the announcement below on your list? > Much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Loren > > > > After a "decent interval" following its publication in New Politics > No. 47, I have posted my article > > " ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 12 17:32:40 PDT 2010

4248 [lbo-talk] "A Labor Party Based on the Trade Unions" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 12, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > It wasn't sustainable > in the golden age of capitalism in the 20th century and it sure as > hell > isn't any more sustainable now. Though didn't the Swedish soc dem party really get going when Sweden was a rather poor country? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 12 17:14:15 PDT 2010

4249 [lbo-talk] advances in the culinary arts -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/the-definitive-kfc-double-down-review> The Definitive KFC Double Down Review by David Cho posted @2:00 PM You are almost certainly aware of this, but today is not just any Monday. In the same way that we all remember September 26, 2006 as the debut of Burger King's Chicken Fries, April 12th, 2010 will be seared upon our historical consciousness as the premiere of the new KFC sandwich, the Double Down. I'm afraid I must confess that when I a connoisseur o ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 12 16:50:24 PDT 2010

4250 [lbo-talk] "A Labor Party Based on the Trade Unions" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/seiu-launches-third-party-in-north-carolina.php > > Expecting a Trot migration to NC. > Hell, I'd vote for them. A NC friend in the know says that, sadly, there may not be much here. The guy behind the move is Dana Cope, director of the State Employees Assoc. of North Carolina, who's been steadily drifting to the right. Most recently, he supported an effort by affluent white families and ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 12 12:30:44 PDT 2010

4251 [lbo-talk] Jail The Pope -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > Well, I don't know shit about the specifics, but yeah, given that it > removed > Pol Pot from power, it obviously "wasn't an entirely bad thing." I read a pretty good book about it long ago, Nayan Chanda's Brother Enemy. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 11 18:42:57 PDT 2010

4252 [lbo-talk] Jail The Pope -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > If I were a neoconservative grasping for "good wars," I suppose I > couldn't > do that much better than the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia (not > that Ho > was around at the time.) Could I? Do you have to be a neocon? The U.S. opposed that invasion, and to me, it wasn't an entirely bad thing. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 11 18:33:06 PDT 2010

4253 [lbo-talk] Jail The Pope -- rank: 1000

Pretty funny. Hitch wouldn't endorse the arrest of Bush for crimes against humanity, would he?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 17:58:38 PDT 2010

4254 [lbo-talk] Who are the Teabaggers? Call for assistance. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2010, at 8:09 AM, brad bauerly wrote: > I agree with the point but you will loose them with the message. You > make the case that one group is intelligent while the other is a bunch > of idiots. What word would you use to describe a group of people who think that Barack Obama is a socialist? "Idiot" is perhaps excessively condensed and crude, but "systematically and perhaps hopelessly deluded" might work. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 11 06:27:58 PDT 2010

4255 [lbo-talk] the exotic -- rank: 1000

Those of you who can't get enough Chris Cutrone should check this out: http://home.speedsite.com/ccutrone/child.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 11 04:56:37 PDT 2010

4256 [lbo-talk] Who are the Teabaggers? Call for assistance. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > My main point is to stress to > student progressives that the real enemy is the intelligent, affable > black > man in the White House and the society in his charge, not your Ayn > Rand > quoting, libertarian cousin or some idiot doing combat drills in the > woods > in West Bumblefuck Nowhere America. Yes, yes, 1,000 times yes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 18:19:03 PDT 2010

4257 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 1000

By the way, not to personalize this or anything (though Ian Bone would urge just that), but this photo reminds me of my old Party of the Right colleagues: http://home.speedsite.com/ccutrone/index.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 18:16:48 PDT 2010

4258 [lbo-talk] masturbating commas -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > When I was still able to read I loved this style, and reread The > Golden > Bowl I tried reading that once. I couldn't make head nor tail of it. And I loved The Ambassadors. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 18:03:39 PDT 2010

4259 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Christopher Cutrone wrote: > This will be my last post to the list, at least for a while. Indeed, > I was drawn into a place of "sandbox" disputes. Thanks for descending from on high to mix it up with us juveniles. It's been enlightening. I've heard from several sources now that you were once a Spartacist. This makes some sense. You show the Sparts' love of sectarian dispute combined with their absolutely unprincipled way of characterizing their o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 18:00:46 PDT 2010

4260 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Christopher Cutrone wrote: > I made a polemical critique of Ali that he falsified the situation > in Iraq under the occupation. Saying or even implying that > marketplace and mosque bombings were the work of Black Ops and not > sectarian forces was and remains a lie. Someone who persistently misquotes someone after being called on it really has no basis for calling other people liars. I've really had about enough of this. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 9 18:37:37 PDT 2010